A year ago, plenty of people were dubious about the prospects of Crocs, the Niwot-based manufacturer of comfy-but-ugly plastic shoes. The company had soared to the top of bad-fashion lists and was about to go public. Skeptics suggested this was just a way for the initial investors to cash in…
Jeff Campbell is moving on. But he’s leaving the group he founded, the ten-year-old Colorado Hip Hop Coalition, in good hands — with the next generation of high-hop enthusiasts. “By bridging the gap between the artists’ community and the greater community by engaging hip-hop artists in the academic careers of…
Two weeks ago in Bite Me, I wrote about Kyoto, the new-old restaurant being reopened by Duy Pham and partner James Lee at 7301 South Santa Fe Drive in Littleton. Now it’s official: The place will close on Sunday, October 15, and then, after a five-day whirlwind of cleaning, repair…
Another day, another article about newspaper cutbacks. But while a Los Angeles Times piece that ran yesterday under the headline “Changes Feared at Daily News” concerns a publication several states away, it could forbode similar developments in these parts. The aforementioned offering focuses on the Daily News of Los Angeles,…
Daily papers all too frequently overplay freakish or frivolous bits of faux-news at the expense of more important stories — and when such publications resist the urge to do so, they typically deserve praise. But that wasn’t the case with this past Sunday’s Denver Post. The paper’s decision to bury…
To the surprise of no one, the porn case against John Mark Karr, the best-known false confessor in the JonBenet Ramsey slaying, was tossed yesterday by a judge in Sonoma County, California. As noted in this week’s Message column, the main evidence against him was in a computer that authorities…
The current Message column deals in part with the hefty number of Colorado stories that go national — and the network morning shows this a.m. provided two more examples. During the 7:30 a.m. segment of the Today show, Meredith Vieria (pictured) presented a sample from her first major out-of-town interview…
¿Todos hablan español? the dance teacher asks the ten teenagers gathered in Alejandra Ramos’s garage. “Good.” But one of the boys is still shaking his head no. “You know you speak Spanish, stop lying,” fourteen-year-old Alejandra tells him, pointing her finger at the baggy-pants boy, then looking around at everyone…
Hot DAM is right! The Civic Center will be the center of lots of civic activities this weekend, with two Columbus-related parades on a collision course with the crowds expected for the debut of the new addition to the Denver Art Museum, which opens to the hoi polloi at 10…
After nearly every startling episode that’s taken place in Colorado over the past decade or so, assorted locals have looked TV-news cameras in the eye and delivered variations on the phrase “This sort of thing isn’t supposed to happen here.” So it was no surprise to hear Tom Grigg, the…
You don’t get to be a man of Dealin’ Doug’s stature without understanding the first rule of celebrity: Always leave them wanting more. I learned this over drinks with the automobile baron himself. Oh, you didn’t hear? Dealin’ Doug and I had a drink together. No big deal. Except that…
Maria Cole deserves a gold star. Because while the attention of the international art world is all trained on man-of-the-moment Daniel Libeskind, this Davis Partnership architect has been humbly leading the city’s artistic evolution. Cole is quiet and understated, more prone to self-deprecation than fighting for any of Denver’s reflected…
A college dropout with 20 years of reporting experience and a Pulitzer Prize on his résumé, Gary Webb broke the biggest story of his career in August 1996 when he published “Dark Alliance,” a three-part series for The San Jose Mercury News that linked the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency to…
The Truth Hurts Used and abused: Just when you think the politics associated with elections cannot be filled with any greater debauchery, Patricia Calhoun’s “Cold. Very Cold,” appears in the September 28 issue. Using an event that caused such enormous pain for so, so many people, then twisting that event…
Among the elements added to the CBS Evening News when anchor Katie Couric took over the broadcast is freeSpeech. Each night in this segment, an individual is given a minute or so to share his or her views about a topic of interest, and CBS, which has long been attacked…
For those of us who watched the media in action following the 1999 killings at Columbine High School, coverage of yesterday’s football matchup between Platte Canyon High School, site of last week’s slaying of student Emily Keyes (pictured), and Colorado Springs Christian School provided another dose of deja vu. At…
It’s strange to think that many people will never know the pleasure of flip, flip, flipping through a stack of LPs at a record store, but almost any music collector of age remembers the act — just as they remember going through a card catalogue (a what?). Back in the…
I was under the impression that the purpose of an urban park was to create a quiet, green oasis away from the hustle and bustle of commerce. So it confounds me that the Libeskind plan for the Civic Center literally bustles with hustle. A shopping arcade, an ice-skating rink, a…
In the face of death, Sandy Bush lived. His greatest fear when he first found out that cancer was eating away his body was that he’d suffer a slow, painful death. The only way Sandy could overcome that fear was to know he could control his time of dying. No…
When it comes to my kids, I’m overprotective. I keep a tight rein on them and rarely let them out of my sight. This means no hanging out at the mall unchaperoned, and I hardly ever co-sign on overnights at friends’ houses. The way I see it, I can’t protect…
“As I reviewed all of the documents for this hearing today, I felt like I was looking at a proposal for a made-for-TV movie,” Colorado Congresswoman Diana DeGette said last Thursday as the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee convened. And this hearing wasn’t even about the still-to-break scandal of disgraced…
Yesterday’s despicable school assault in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, was considerably more deadly than the one that took place at Platte Canyon High School near Bailey last week. The Pennsylvania slayer, Charles Carl Roberts IV (pictured here — and no relation, thankfully), shot ten girls execution-style before committing suicide; at this…
